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On The Edge
Written Directed and Performed by David Leddy www.davidleddy.com
Directorial Assistance - Susan Worsfold
Technical Operation - Kate Nelson
Venue - The Arches www.thearches.co.uk
0901 022 0300
New entrance at 253 Argyll St opposite the Argyll St exit from Central
Station. Disabled access to both floors, cafe bar, theatre and toilet
facilities.
Tickets:£6/£4 (2 for 1 on 1st night)
Dates - 22
- 24 Nov at 7:30pm
Runtime :- 1hr 10mins plus a question and answer session after
a short break
Reviewer - Thelma Good
With wit and playful delight.
It's a dark, dank night and Dr Duncan's wife has dastardly been done
to death with a dagger. Delectably performed by one David Leddy this murder
mystery puts the rotting corpse of detective novels and films to forensic
examination. He ruins only the view that the crime genre is mere light
entertainment. Oh it's so much more my dears, it's so revealing of all
us mortals who remain.
Set in a decaying country seat there's the usual suspects that Christie
and her ilk gather in the library. The Spinster, The Major, The Butler,
The Maid, The Bright Young Thing and The Foreigner each illustrated by
sinister art deco portraits by Tamara de Lempicka. And to begin with there's
a period dance to get us in the mood executed by Leddy with a shimmy and
a shake like my old maiden Aunt Kate. After that we get a short interrogation
by the Inspector of each suspect, and the non PC things they say. What
an era! The Doctor's taking notes all the while and giving some illuminating,
some confusing asides. Well, his wife has died. But he will keep referring
to other crimes nearly all captured on film, he's quite a buff, also very
keen on Havelock (their eyes are too close together) Ellis, Victorian
criminologist.
David Leddy plays everyone with a wicked touch, illustrating our increasing
experience that fact and fiction have merged in this world. When we see
an incinerated man in a jeep, a plane fly into a building or that friendly,
helpful doctor are they real or just sleeping nightmares? Is reality more
shocking than the blockbuster - who knows? But at the Arches this is a
well provoking show with a murder to solve and a genre to expose with
wit and playful delight. And as they would have said quite gay, my dear,
quite wonderfully gay!
© Thelma Good 22 November 2001
Review of Through The Night, ( EdinbughGuide review).The
second part of The Corbicula Circle.
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